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Posts posted by francois2605
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Not sure if some of you follow this channel (that I personally love), the guy posted a video about the forge of Japanese swords:
Haven't seen yet but given the usual quality of his videos...
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I regularly buy and/or sell items that are listed on the Nihonto Message Board
What are you supposed to answer if you regularly buy but never sold ?
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From what I understood, the numbers painted on the nakago usually never match the ones on the fittings.
If your sword fits inside the koshirae, it has to be original. Each sword being unique, it's almost impossible to find another koshirae for a given sword.
Very nice pictures
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Have you checked Google for SVG files ? There seems to be a lot of scalable files available for free. For instance: https://commons.wiki...panese_family_crests
Unless you want something custom ?
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Thanks Stephen, amended my post
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@Bruno The polishing "process" has been documented in this thread from 2012:
Edit: Corrected my message after Stephen's feedback and added missing link to the mentioned post
Edit:
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@Stephen Steven mistakenly replied here to a PM I sent him earlier today.
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14 hours ago, Swords said:
Just curious how many people on this forum think they need to read more books???
I think I should read more. I bought tons of books but barely read them: I start full of optimism but rarely make it to the end (it takes a serious commitment on the medium term which isn't compatible with the way I operate).
Multiple reasons for that:
* When I have free time (in the evening) after a work day, I'm usually too tired to read something as technical as a nihonto book
* English isn't my native english which only makes the learning more difficult
* Reading a nihonto book is usually at the bottom of my todo list
* My brain is wired to remember reasonings / logical facts and connect them with things I already know (I remember the logic and derive facts from it). That's how I accumulate knowledge. It's very challenging for someone like me to accumulate knowledge in the field of nihonto: all I read seems to be "random" facts disconnected from what I read previously, I have a very hard time remembering things related to nihonto because I fail to draw any logical connection between facts A and B. As a consequence, reading is not the problem, the problem is remembering what you read and accumulating knowledge over time.
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That's a terrible news. The JSI is probably the website I've used the most during my searches. He contributed a lot to this community. RIP Rich
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Are you selling this sword ? If so rules require posting your asking price
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17 hours ago, Jon said:
https://tokyosword.m...om/collections/sword
This seller is also known as Masa Horiuchi on Facebook
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The quality of some of their translations dramatically improved recently. I immediately thought that someone had used ChatGPT . My guess it that "top notch" comes from ChatGPT rather than Tsuruta-san.
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When I inquired in Dec 2022, @Barrett Hiebert had sold his sword to Robert Hughes
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9 hours ago, Larason2 said:
There are a lot of different words for "new" Japanese swords, and they mean different things to different people. Gendaito, shinshinto, and shinsakuto are just some of them. You also hear Showa a lot, but less so Heisei or Reiwa.
AFAIK the ambiguity is only about gendaitō / shinsakutō which can mean different things for different people. As per Markus Sesko:
Quotegendaitō (現代刀) – Lit. “modern sword.” Traditionally, the term gendaitō is applied to swords made in the traditional way from after the end of the shinshintō era, which is marked by haitōrei issued in 1876, to the of WWII. When sword production resumed in 1953, i.e. after the ban on sword production issued by the allied forces, a new term was introduced for the newly made swords, namely shinsakutō (新作刀). However, shinsakutō means as indicated “newly made sword” and as this distinction took place more than half a century ago, there is the tendency among experts and collectors to “extend” the term gendaitō and apply it also to swords made in more or less the decades after WWII. But following the latter approach, no exact definition has yet been made to tell until when the term gendaitō applies and when the term shinsakutō should be used.
There should be zero ambiguity about shinshintō:
Quoteshinshintō (新々刀) – Lit. “new new sword” or “very new sword.” Term to refer to sword made between the shintō and the haitōrei, which is from around An ́ei (安永, 1772-1781) to 1876. The start of the shinshintō era is usually equated with the fukkotō movement (復古刀), the revival of old kotō-era forging traditions, initiated by Suishinshi Masahide (水心子正秀). Masahide was namely not satisfied with the then status quo of the sword world, i.e. to remain stuck to the Ōsaka-shintō and the danger of falling into oblivion of the kotō-era forging techniques. He tried more or less single- handedly to rediscover and revive the old forging techniques of the Heian and Kamakura period and this new focus on the art of sword forging after a period of qualitative and quantitative decline was so epoch-making that the term shinshintō was introduced.
or Showa, Heisei and Reiwa which are nengō era names.
Note: Showa should not be confused with Showatō which denotes non-traditionally made swords.
Finally, shinsakutō:
Quoteshinsakutō (新作刀) – Lit. “newly made sword.” When sword production resumed in 1953, i.e. after the ban on sword production issued by the allied forces, a new term was introduced for the newly made swords, namely shinsakutō, to distinguish them from the gendaitō swords made from after the haitōrei until WWII. However, shinsakutō means as indicated “newly made sword” and as this distinction took place more than half a century ago, there is the tendency among experts and collectors to “extend” the term gendaitō and apply it also to swords made in more or less the decades after WWII. But following the latter approach, no exact definition has yet been made to tell until when the term gendaitō applies and when the term shinsakutō should be used. Incidentally, there is also another approach to distinguish between gendaitō and shinsakutō, namely in the way that as long as a contemporary smith is alive, his works are referred to as shinsakutō but after his death they “become” gendaitō.
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59 minutes ago, Dr Greenthumb80 said:
I've gotten two Wakizashi swords from this seller, one with a registration card, and the other is certified by NTHK. So, I do trust the seller.
If you trust the seller, why are you wondering whether the sword is genuine ?
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BTW it looks more like a Type 94 than 98 to me
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1 hour ago, Swords said:
Just found out there’s a hole in the blade
Can you show us ? I can't see any in the pictures uploaded so far
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Hello Lawrence, have you checked this reference website http://ohmura-study.net/911.html ?
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I like this thread. I was thinking recently that it would be really useful to have swordsmith-dedicated threads on the forum to aggregate all the information about a given person.
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This is a very sad news 😢 Condolences to his family.
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Hi Alexi and welcome to the forum.
You will probably find this thread useful: https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/34023-bibliography-of-Japanese-modern-edged-weapons-1868-1945
Veritasium posted a video about nihonto
in General Nihonto Related Discussion
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Indeed, there are some inaccuracies and overstatements however the technical explanations regarding the metallurgic aspects are worth watching I think. It's the first video I've seen explaining so well what happens at quenching time.